1. The design isn't even close to ready.
2. They're not confident in the design they have.

I guess you are right. Good points you have.

@I'm very curious now what Microsoft has to offer... although at this point I really don't care.
Me too friend who cares about this garbage Microsoft with its $#@! console. I don't no how did I buy the garbage Xbox and wasted 280 dollars. Probably I have had an extra money.

@seksy

You guys over think it. It's as simple as the design isn't finalized yet.
I would say true.

I reckon they just didn't want to give away too much info too soon. Also as was said previous they may not have the finial design down. The whole theme of the press release was emphasis on the gamer and being able to play on anything anywhere, so i guess they don't really want the public to focus on the PS4 hardware/box etc more instead on the gaming experience it can offer

1. The design isn't even close to ready.
2. They're not confident in the design they have.

That is possible, but I think they are playing their cards smart! This gives them something to show at E3 along with more games. I wouldn't want to reveal everything at this point either, just enough to let the competition know what's up! So if they show the PS4, PS4 Eye, more games, pricing/specs/release date at E3 they will steal some of Microsoft's thunder...

Iam no expert nor have experience in this business. But why Sony didn't show us the design of PS4?

Because the parts for it aren't even in production yet and the specs may still change.

You've got to remember, this thing is still 9-10 months away from release. It's not like they have them rolling off the production lines right now. They will probably have early QA test systems in final form ready for E3, but I wouldn't expect to see anything until then.

They can't reveal everything right now, they are most likely spreading all the news throughout the year. So E3 they will most likely reveal what the console looks like. I will also bet we haven't even heard everything there is to hear when it comes to the PS4 and what it's capable of doing. We've heard a lot in the few hours the conference was on, but I think there is quite a bit more.

@Ryunosuke The next xbox will not be announced at E3 it will be announced before. Sony should have had the PS4 there, announcing a product without showing on that scale is crazy, but they pulled it off.

"We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that (developers) want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so then the question is, what do you do for the rest of the nine-and-a-half years?"
--Kaz Hirai, CEO, Sony Computer Entertainment

I'm confident the consoles aesthetics will blow us away. Sony have always been one to flaunt their hardware 'expertise' especially in design, and their product line for this year is very pleasing on the eyes so far. I'm expecting a very sexy and slick looking box

I just hope it's quiet

So with that said maybe they know that people want to see how it looks but holding it back means they have a reason for people to keep up with the PS4 train for a while longer. I don't think it's as 'stupid' as people are suggesting for them not to show how it looks

Someone sony said it was of a similar size and colour to other playstation designs.That doesnt help much I know but I think its just a sly marketing ploy (working for me ) to create additional hype when they release the actual design.

I think it's not ready and will most likely be delayed, given that RAM number is new, meaning new layout challenges. The problem will be what that ram is going to do to yields and production. Expensive, hard to nail down in capacity.

"We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that (developers) want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so then the question is, what do you do for the rest of the nine-and-a-half years?"
--Kaz Hirai, CEO, Sony Computer Entertainment

I think it's not ready and will most likely be delayed, given that RAM number is new, meaning new layout challenges. The problem will be what that ram is going to do to yields and production. Expensive, hard to nail down in capacity.

That RAM is the same stuff that is currently used in modern day video cards, I don't think yields and production will be an issue.

I hear you. I'm looking forward to the games taking advantage of all this RAM now. I know people are saying it's comparable to a modern day GPU... but it's a little different with consoles because whereas with PCs you have to continuously upgrade your GPU to keep up with games continuously being ridiculous and not even optimized to take advantage of multiple cores and other nonsense, devs for consoles will be constantly trying to take advantage of the console's power... leaving a greater potential for the card to show off what it can truly do... and seeing what devs this gen have done with the PS3's 512 MB of RAM... I can only imagine the kind of crap we're going to see in this next generation. I am very excited.

I hear you. I'm looking forward to the games taking advantage of all this RAM now. I know people are saying it's comparable to a modern day GPU... but it's a little different with consoles because whereas with PCs you have to continuously upgrade your GPU to keep up with games continuously being ridiculous and not even optimized to take advantage of multiple cores and other nonsense, devs for consoles will be constantly trying to take advantage of the console's power... leaving a greater potential for the card to show off what it can truly do... and seeing what devs this gen have done with the PS3's 512 MB of RAM... I can only imagine the kind of crap we're going to see in this next generation. I am very excited.

Exactly, it is amazing what they have accomplished with 512MB, heck 8GB of RAM would work wonders on a PC, but having 8GB of GDDR5...on a console, that is going to allow developers to create some really amazing stuff! This is going to be a very exciting generation of console gaming, that is for sure!

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